Weather Station Kurt (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an Automatic weather station, erected by a German U-boat crew in Northern Labrador, Newfoundland in October 1943. Installing the equipment for the station was the only armed German military operation on land in North America during the Second World War.
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